Loneliness Quote by William Styron Download Open image “Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” — William Styron ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loneliness Reading
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the best state I can be in.It enables me to listen to my heart.” — Basabi Bora Copy Share Image
Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading. — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, he thought, if I only think of this second, this moment, the train won't come at all. Think of the water, think of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Until that moment, although I’d had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not… — William Styron Copy Share Image
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“date of the award approached, I would not have accepted at all. Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: their falseness was shameful. I was sure my coolness would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“He was made uneasy by unbraked hilarity and by extremes of sorrow alike, especially the latter; he preferred life to sail along pleasantly and… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“One of the century’s most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: “There is but one truly serious philosophical… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't let 'being single' make you feel like a loner. Its better to be alone. Relationships arent cures for loneliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image